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Allen Wittenauer resolved HADOOP-9086.
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Resolution: Won't Fix
I'm going to set this as won't fix. Introducing more dependencies at this
level sounds like a bad thing, esp given that every ops person has their own
preferences as to what to user here.
> Enforce process singleton rules through an exclusive write lock on a file,
> not a pid file +kill -0,
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> Key: HADOOP-9086
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-9086
> Project: Hadoop Common
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: scripts, util
> Affects Versions: 1.1.1, 2.0.3-alpha
> Environment: Unix/Linux.
> Reporter: Steve Loughran
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> the {{hadoop-daemon.sh}} script (and other liveness monitors) probe the
> existence of a daemon service by a {{kill -0}} of a process id picked up from
> a pid file.
> This is flawed
> # pid file locations may change with installations.
> # Linux and Unix recycle pids, leading to false positives -the scripts think
> the process is running, when another process is.
> # doesn't work on windows.
> Having the processes acquire an exclusive write-lock on a known file would
> delegate lock management and implicitly liveness to the OS itself. when the
> process dies, the lock is relased (on Unixes)
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